hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred
Third Congress, first session, on the nominations of Ronald K. Noble, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement; Frank N. Newman, to be an
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In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his ...

Ongoing research and discoveries in the life sciences -- the latest and most promising involving synthetic biology -- have led to extraordinary advances that will benefit society. But criminals and terrorists could manipulate such advances to disrupt public safety and national security.

By Atticus Gannaway
In 2000, Ronald Noble took a leave of absence from the NYU School of Law to assume the leadership of INTERPOL. As secretary general of an international police organization that serves 187 countries, Noble has stressed the need to give police more prominence in the global fight against terrorism.

Head of INTERPOL Calls for Armed Citizens to Prevent Attacks Like the Kenya Mall Attack
OCTOBER 22 2013
BY DAN CANNON
In an interview given with ABC News, the Secretary General of INTERPOL, Ronald Noble, made some surprising statements following the terrorist attack on a mall in Kenya last month.
Noble said the following according to ABC,
“Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Col.

This dissertation explores methods of measuring the benefit of treating depression. It attempts to find utility weights for different levels of depression, and to measure the benefit of treating depression in terms of both utility and dollars. It goes beyond previous research in using detailed, realistic descriptions of the many symptoms that typically occur in depression. It also goes beyond prior research in attempting to obtain utility weights for many different levels of depression, rather than for simply one or a few levels. And it goes beyond previous research in attempting to measure the benefit of depression treatment in dollar terms. ^ This dissertation uses the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) as the basis for describing different levels of depression. The HRSD is one of the most widely used measures of depression in depression treatment studies. This dissertation explores the extent to which the weight the HRSD gives to depression symptoms deviates from those given to these symptoms by persons rating changes in these symptoms. ^ This dissertation attempts to solve problems with the use of the time trade-off, which is one of the major methods of eliciting utility weights from research participants. It explores whether a variant of the traditional time trade-off procedure can overcome the problem of people valuing future health benefits less than present ones (temporal discounting), and the problem of people refusing accept any lesser duration of life in exchange for improved quality of life. ^